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Eric Stefanski Genius and Fraud For Sale
Eric Stefanski
Genius and Fraud, 2023
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 in 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Edition
Unique
About this work
Eric Stefanski's "Genius and Fraud" presents these two weighted words in his characteristic gestural script, rendered in oil on a substantial sixty-by-forty-eight-inch canvas. The phrases occupy the picture plane with an urgency that feels both confessional and confrontational, the letters built up through layered brushwork that reveals the physical act of their making. Stefanski's hand is everywhere evident—in the drips that trail from certain letterforms, in the visible pentimenti where words have been reworked, in the textural variation that moves from thick impasto to thinner, more translucent passages. The pairing strikes at something fundamental about creative identity, that persistent internal dialogue between self-belief and self-doubt that haunts anyone who makes things. These are not neutral words arranged for aesthetic effect; they carry the weight of late-night reckonings, of oscillating certainty. Stefanski treats language as emotional residue, and here the residue is particularly raw—the two terms exist in tension, neither canceling the other, both potentially true at once. Within Stefanski's broader practice, this work exemplifies his commitment to text as primary image rather than supplementary element. The words do not illustrate or caption; they are the subject itself, painted with the same attention to surface, color, and composition that another artist might bring to a figure or landscape. The scale demands a physical relationship with the viewer, making the internal monologue external, public, shared. For acquisition inquiries regarding "Genius and Fraud," interested collectors are encouraged to contact Guy Hepner gallery in New York directly.
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